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Oda Nobunaga

1534–1582 · 16th century

Oda Nobunaga was a Japanese warlord of the sixteenth century who began the military unification of Japan during the Sengoku period. Tokugawa Ieyasu served as his ally. After Nobunaga's death in 1582, his work was continued by Toyotomi Hideyoshi and completed by Ieyasu, who founded the Tokugawa Shogunate.

Oda Nobunaga
Image: 狩野宗秀 (Kanō Sōshū, 1551 - 1601) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Oda Nobunaga. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/oda-nobunaga
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